Female futurist keynote speaker A futurist who has lived the future she's talking about.
Sam Rad didn't study the future from a distance. She built it: AI in 2010, then blockchain and connected hardware, generative AI, and now causal AI for foresight. On stage, she shows leaders the pattern behind every big change.
She built it. Then she explained it.
Event planners book Sam when the program needs someone who has built the technology the audience is worried about, and can explain what it means for people.
She says the things other speakers won't, and she says them with warmth. She brings the calm confidence of a skydiver and the energy of a rock star to every stage, and customizes every keynote to the room.
Book Sam Rad →Four companies. One pattern.
- 2011An AI shopping assistant
Co-founded a fashion technology company and built an AI personal shopping assistant, years before AI assistants were everyday tools.
- 2014–2019Blockchain and connected hardware
Co-founded a company bringing trust to global supply chains. Chief Product Officer, then Chief Marketing Officer. Four granted US patents as first-named inventor.
- ThenGenerative AI
Co-founded a London-based generative AI communication platform.
- TodayCausal AI for foresight
Co-founder and CEO of MISTIC, a causal AI platform for strategic foresight and decision intelligence.
She studies people, not gadgets.
Trained in anthropology and linguistics at Colgate, with a master's in technology and society from NYU, Sam has watched every technology wave from two sides: as the founder building it, and as the anthropologist studying what it does to people.
Her fieldwork runs from identity inside virtual worlds in 2009 to the networks behind illicit trade today. That is why her keynote lands with any room: it is about people first.
Five continents. Every kind of room.
Featured in Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business by Andi Simon (2021), in the chapter “Myth 10: Women Don't Belong in IT.”
“Sam took the audience on a mesmerizing and radical journey, unlike anything we've experienced at our events.”
Maelen Haugen · Supply Chain, Cisco
Before you book.
- Who is Sam Rad?
- Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia) is The Change Futurist: a female futurist keynote speaker, anthropologist, and four-time tech founder across AI, blockchain, and connected hardware. She is Co-Founder and CEO of MISTIC Systems and the author of the #1 bestseller Radical Next.
- What makes Sam different from other futurist speakers?
- She has built the technology she talks about: AI that mapped personal taste starting in 2010, blockchain and connected hardware for global supply chains, generative AI, and now causal AI for strategic foresight. She is also a trained anthropologist, so her keynote is about people first.
- What is her keynote about?
- Change Has a Pattern shows audiences the cycle every big change follows, why the new tools are not paying off yet, and the four moves that turn the corner: see the pattern, let go of the old way, lead the jetpack, and take it off.
- Does Sam speak at women in leadership and women in tech events?
- Yes. Women in Business and Women in Tech are among her speaking topics, and she is featured in Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business by Andi Simon (2021). Her keynote works just as well for mixed audiences.
- Who has Sam spoken for?
- Sam has keynoted on five continents for clients including Dell, Cisco, IBM, SAP, American Express, LinkedIn, Nestlé, Kellogg’s, and Sky.
- Is the keynote customized?
- Every time. Sam builds each version around the forces reshaping your industry, from financial services and healthcare to retail, supply chain, higher education, and government.
- How long is the keynote, and can it be virtual?
- Opening or closing keynote, 45 to 60 minutes, with optional Q&A, in person or virtual. Sam travels from New York City.
- How do we book Sam?
- Sam is represented by Brandy Gibson at Executive Speakers Bureau. Send an inquiry at sam-rad.com/contact and you will hear back within one business day. Bios, photos, and the one-sheet are at sam-rad.com/speaking-materials.